Faculty Benefits

For faculty members, teaching a service-learning course offers a multitude of benefits.
Service-learning enhances teaching effectiveness, advances scholarship and academic
contributions, and provides service to the university and surrounding community.

Service-learning is also one of many activities used in the tenure and promotion process.
“Tenure and Promotion Guidelines” of the Southeastern Faculty Handbook states, “Evaluation
of Teaching may also be based on supervision of service-learning,” (p.4).

The following provides different ways in which service-learning can fit into the tenure
and promotion process.

Teaching/Job Effectiveness

Develop powerful curricula that provide students with a “real world” context for theory
and discipline-specific knowledge.

Raise student awareness about current social issues as they relate to academic areas
of interest.

Engage students in interactive classroom discussions that draw upon course material
and invite new perspectives and personal experiences.